" ... extensively revised and expanded 15th edition of Gardner's Art through the Ages: the Western Perspective, which, like the 14th edition, is a hybrid art history textbook- ..."--Vol. 1, page xiii.
"Student edition" and "Loose-leaf edition"--Title page verso.
The 15th edition of Gardner's Art through the Ages is available in several different traditional paper formats.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Volume I. What is art history? ; Art in the Stone Age ; Ancient Mesopotamia and Persia ; Egypt from Narmer to Cleopatra ; The prehistoric Aegean ; Ancient Greece ; The Etruscans ; The Roman Empire ; Late Antiquity ; Byzantium ; The Islamic World ; Early Medieval Europe ; Romanesque Europe ; Gothic Europe ; Late Medieval Italy -- Volume II. Late Medieval Italy ; Late Medieval and early Renaissance northern Europe ; The Renaissance in Quattrocento Italy ; Renaissance and Mannerism in Cinquecento Italy ; High Renaissance and Mannerism in northern Europe and Spain ; The Baroque in Italy and Spain ; The Baroque in northern Europe ; Rococo to Neoclassicism: the 18th century in Europe and America ; Romanticism, Realism, photography: Europe and America, 1800 to 1870 ; Impressionism, Post-impressionism, Symbolism: Europe and America, 1870 to 1900 ; Moderism in Europe and America, 1900 to 1945 -- Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980 ; Contemporary art worldwide.